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I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by rhinoceraptor »

bobthepanda wrote: post #52
vitorbaptistaa wrote: post #33

I love this! I prefer digital stuff (less things to worry about), but I miss the physicality, especially when friends come over. Books or CDs become a conversation. If you'd like to do something similar, but don't want to DIY it, check out Yoto Player [1]. This is a small music speaker and they sell a bunch of NFC cards to "play" them. You can also buy blank cards and use their app to add whatever you want to them (m…

CDs are now actually also joining vinyls in being revived for physical merch purposes. They're no longer needed, but if you want them they are available for purchase.

I love CDs, and unlike records or tapes they have never really gone up in price, even with inflation. A new CD is still about $15.

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by lexx »

You are in my mind and in my heart. This is a constant thought that I have. I grew up in a house where books, vinyls, cds, slides, tapes and other media were everywhere. Some on display, others archived in boxes. Large part of my childhood was spent with me exploring through that stuff and creating custom mixtapes with songs that I really liked. I still have a lot of them.

I also remember my 10 yo self, designing in Corel draw my own labels and printing them to fit the tape case.

I always ask my self "what is my kid going to explore? My Spotify account?" It's one of the reasons I still collect vinyls and books. Even if I don't really listen or read them from the physical format.

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by rhinoceraptor »

If your inkjet printer has the right tray, you can buy printable CD-Rs for about 25 cents a piece in bulk. And somewhat unrelated, I've also been printing out a lot more of the photos I take.

I got a Canon PRO-100 printer for $25 off of Facebook marketplace, they practically gave them away with higher end DSLRs so they're easy to get second hand, and a set of generic ink cartridges is about $15. With generic ink and generic photo paper, you can do a 13x19 prints for about 50 cents each. It's not archival grade printing, but it's pretty good and affordable.

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by geluso »

Awesome album picks. Odelay looks especially great on your card.

I made something like this for TV shows and movies using floppy disks. Each floppy has a text file with filepaths of videos on a hard drive. When the floppy is inserted a bash script detects it and plays a random video from the text file on the floppy.

I like the physicality of systems like this. It is much more satisfying to to flick through physical items than to scroll through a digital list of things.

You've got great artwork. I need to up the artwork on my floppys!

There's a demo video in my repo: https://github.com/geluso/floppy-vision

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by Nursie »

It's an interesting toy, but I wonder if this isn't someone trying to hold back the tides of modernity by making their kids appreciate music the way they did.

AFAICT most of the old musical tribes we used to arrange ourselves into are a bit of a thing of the past (punks/goths/greebos/grunge/indie kids/ravers/etc), and kids don't build their identities around music taste any more, because music is no longer so much of a scarce commodity.

Sometimes things just change...

That said, as a fun tech project, definitely cool.

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by selectodude »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #55
bobthepanda wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CDs are now actually also joining vinyls in being revived for physical merch purposes. They're no longer needed, but if you want them they are available for purchase.

They're needed if you want proper digital copies for gapless album playback. You can't trust anybody to get that right.

Apple fixed gapless playback in iTunes like 20 years ago.

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by Fuzzwah »

I did a similar project... 13 years ago. I haven't used it in some time, but I really do miss the visual aspect of selecting what to listen to... you've inspired me to get it rigged up again. Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwyq2xqjHW0

My hacky solution, which is obviously way out of date and a bit specialised to my situation (in that I use kodi to play my music) is over here: https://github.com/Fuzzwah/xbmc-rfid-music

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by sandreas »

jcul wrote: post #41
sandreas wrote: post #35

There are several projects here in germany doing similar things. There is https://tonies.com , which is cloud based and pretty expensive, but hackable ( https://github.com/toniebox-reverse-engineering/teddycloud ). Then there is the RFID Jukebox: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID And Tonuino: https://github.com/tonuino/TonUINO-TNG I built ours with the RFID Jukebox and wrote a little tool called labelmaker…

There's also yoto box, which lets you create "make your own" cards.

Mmh, I know the yoto play (https://eu.yotoplay.com/) but are you referencing to a specific open source project?

Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by [deleted] »

lexx wrote: post #82

You are in my mind and in my heart. This is a constant thought that I have. I grew up in a house where books, vinyls, cds, slides, tapes and other media were everywhere. Some on display, others archived in boxes. Large part of my childhood was spent with me exploring through that stuff and creating custom mixtapes with songs that I really liked. I still have a lot of them. I also remember my 10 yo self, designing in…

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Re: I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery

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Post by schainks »

nedrylandJP wrote: post #4

Looks like a homebrew Yoto

Yeah. We love our Yoto but I also can’t hook up Spotify streaming to Yoto cards, so this post is a very inspired way to bring back the “purpose” behind collecting the music.

I think a workaround to the Spotify issue with Yoto would be proxying a Spotify account through a raspberry pi or lightweight cloud vm. The Yoto cards themselves point to playlists in yoto’s cloud, and the playlists can link to files or stream URIs.

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